The IVY Podcast

#89: Robert Battle on Being a Mirror for Beauty

Robert Battle is the third
artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the
NYC-based modern dance company founded in 1958. Seven years into
his term, Robert is at the forefront of a company that has always
been an incubator for work that focuses on social justice and
social change.

This is most evident in the
success of Ailey’s masterwork,Revelations(1960), which was born out of the
choreographer’s “blood memories” of his childhood in rural Texas
and the Baptist Church. Arguably one of the purest tributes to the
resilience of the human spirit,Revelationsis still very much alive and relevant
today.

In this episode of the IVY
Podcast, moderated byIVY’s
Arts and Culture Director Phil Chan,we are lucky enough to hear all about it
directly from Robert Battle himself.

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